Invincible son

Chapter 998 999 [After the Mist]
Chen Xizhi understood Pei Yue's sudden mention of Fang Xun's intention.

Wang Pingzhang tried every means to transfer Pei Yue out of the capital because he believed that Pei Yue was loyal to the emperor and more threatening than Gu Liang.

In fact, Chen Xizhi's views are roughly similar.

After the night battle in the small courtyard in the northern suburbs, Pei Yue did not leave her in the capital, nor did he send her to the southern border to assist Mr. Xi in his work. Instead, he sent her to the bitterly cold northern border, just to fulfill the promise to Ye Qi from the beginning to the end. .

The reason is that Pei Yue never thought of breaking with Emperor Kaiping, at least not for the time being.

Seeing that he seemed to have room for dealing with the barbarians now, Chen Xi subconsciously thought that the other party had finally changed his mind, intending to sit on the mountain and watch the tigers fight, and let Emperor Kaiping and Wang Pingzhang fight to the death and then come out to clean up the mess.

However, Pei Yue used Fang Xun's death to tell her that there will always be people who make different choices in this world, and he is playing steadily for another reason now, not to sit back and watch the unmanageable chaos in Kyoto.

After a sigh full of complicated emotions, Chen Xizhi changed the topic and said, "When you were still in the southern border last year, Shen Danmo came to look for me."

Pei Yue nodded and said slowly: "She told me about this matter. Apart from telling me to guard against you being used by Wang Pingzhang, she also mentioned your connection with those people in the south."

Years ago, she went to Dingguo Mansion to visit Pei Ning. Before leaving, she stuffed a note into Pei Yue's hand. The note was written in light ink, and many of them were written in secret.

Recalling the meeting with the daughter of the Shen family, Chen Xizhi's cold face showed a sense of melancholy that Pei Yue couldn't understand.After all, in his previous perception, the woman in front of him was the ultimate in cold-blooded and heartless, only a very few people like Ye Qi would make her a little softer.

"Uncle Yu said that he doesn't have a daughter, otherwise he wouldn't arrange it like this. I asked him, if I really do this, how can I live in the future? He said to me, Xizhi, you have to live because you are already dead There are too many people, so you must live to kill Liu Zheng and Wang Pingzhang in the future and destroy the foundation of the Liu Dynasty, so that you can avenge those innocent people who died tragically."

"The impression my mother left on the world is probably a gifted genius, because as a weak woman, in this cruel and harsh world, she opened the Chen family's business all over the country, and truly managed the business with the skills of merchants. Shi Jimin. But in my heart, she will always be the gentle mother who likes to hug me and bask in the sun on the porch, and then tell me stories."

Chen Xizhi noticed Pei Yue's strange gaze, coughed lightly and said, "I once told Ye Qi that if you want to hook up with some dignitaries in Southern Zhou, I can help you once. Shen Danmo came to me because She discovered some secrets from the clues, and then wanted to help you lay out the layout without disturbing others. It's just that this Miss Shen's eyes are too high, or she underestimates me too much."

Pei Yue did not interrupt her thoughts, but listened patiently and quietly.

Even so, it didn't affect her setting up a bureau in Qishan Chong, and she wanted to kill Pei Yue wholeheartedly.

"I don't know what to call that man. You call him Xiandi, and history books will call him Emperor Renzong of Liang Dynasty, but I have only met him a few times, and I really didn't leave a deep impression on him. When my mother gave birth to me, He is still just a prince, far away from the throne. Maybe I should resent him. If he hadn't been close to his mother, those things wouldn't have happened, even I wouldn't have come to this world, but compared to him, I I would rather my mother live well."

Pei Yue automatically ignored her evaluation of Shen Danmo, and suddenly said with some respect in his tone: "The so-called secret...is it related to Lingtang?"

Chen Xizhi turned his head and looked at the night outside the window, his eyes were slightly crystal clear.

Hearing his mention of his mother, Chen Xizhi's clear eyes showed a bit of sadness, even though he was ready to tell the man in front of him the past, but it was so difficult when it happened.Because as long as those past events are mentioned, she will think of her mother's warm smile when she was young, the bloody night in Kyoto 17 years ago, and the years when she fled for her life in a hurry after the age of eight.

Thinking of those, she would feel a piercing pain.

However, she has lost everything now, so she is even more unwilling to show the slightest weakness in front of Pei Yue. After forcibly suppressing the churning thoughts in her heart, she began to speak in a very calm and even slightly indifferent tone.

She looked back at Pei Yue, with a bit of sadness in her tone: "That little girl is the same age as me, and her appearance is somewhat similar. After changing into my clothes, the difference is almost the same. In addition, her appearance was destroyed during the scuffle, almost It's hard to tell the truth from the fake. I remember that her name is Ning Rou'er, her parents are both servants of the Chen family, and she died that night in the capital."

Chen Xizhi raised his hands to support his cheeks, and said quietly: "I was 12 years old that year, and I already understood a lot of truths, and in the years of fleeing, I have already learned how to hide my emotions, and I always feel that I will never cry again At that time, those hawks and dogs were chasing very closely, and most of our people were separated. If there is no real enough disguise, it is impossible to deceive the other party. When Uncle Yu made this decision, I cried and begged him desperately, I can't see Ning with my own eyes Rou'er will die for me."

"By the Tiancang River 13 years ago, Chen Xizhi hid in the dark and looked at Ning Rou'er, who died tragically under the sword of the imperial court's hawks and dogs, and looked at the Chen family members who went forward to prove this incident. She is already dead."

"Mother's choice not to enter the palace is her own choice, and it's a word of love to follow him without a name or title. I can accept all these. But he has always stood on the cloud from the prince, the prince to the emperor, holding the The power that the world can't even imagine, but even the imperial palace can't be controlled, so that there is no cure for the poison in his body. At this time, he still has illusions, thinking that Liu Zheng and Wang Pingzhang will not implicate my mother and me .”

Pei Yue narrowed his eyes slightly, and an indescribable complex emotion welled up in his heart.

"Hehe... Renzong, yes, the word benevolence is so good. Every time Liu Zheng recalls this temple name drawn up by himself, he will think it is one of the masterpieces in his life."

She paused, looked at Pei Yue and said, "In front of the Xingyang City God's Temple, you said that I don't understand the truth that the wrong has its head and the debt has its owner, that people's lives should not be treated as worthless, and that they should not use the lives of the people in the capital to seek revenge. Even if you can’t assassinate Liu Zheng and Wang Pingzhang, you can still kill their descendants. I admit that what you said is very reasonable, but I only know one thing.”

"After the bloody night in Kyoto, Aunt Leng, Uncle Yu, Uncle Nong, Uncle Lu Min, and many other guards loyal to the Chen family paid a heavy price for protecting me. We first fled to Qizhou along the Hengduan Mountains, and then Entering the Shiwanda Mountain in Yuzhou, I fled all the way along the Tiancang River, just to avoid the pursuit of Wang Pingzhang’s hawks and dogs. I remember that it was in the territory of Shangyuan Mansion in Yaozhou. The situation was extremely dangerous at that time, and Uncle Yu helped me create a The scene of suspended animation, so as to escape from birth."

She showed an extremely bitter smile, and said with a slight sarcasm just like back then: "Don't you think it's silly to reason with a dead man?"

Pei Yue lowered his eyes and said after a long time, "The way is different."

"Yeah, the way is different, you and I are walking on different paths." Chen Xizhi took a deep breath, suppressed the bitterness on his face, and said slowly: "You guessed right, and Shen Danmo didn't guess wrong, isn't my mother Liang people."

Pei Yue was a little surprised, obviously did not expect her words to change suddenly.

(End of this chapter)