The Grand Secretary’s Pampered Wife

Seven hundred and sixth, the truth of the year

Chapter 706: The Truth of That Year (Two Updates)

It was raining heavily, and the eaves on both sides of the street were crowded with hawkers pushing their stalls and pedestrians sheltering from the rain. Occasionally, pedestrians passed by with umbrellas, but they quickly closed their umbrellas and hid in the shops beside the rain.

A carriage came slowly from the east end of the street, stepping on the rain.

The rain was too heavy, the road was slippery, and the line of sight was blocked, so the driver dared not drive too fast.

Suddenly, there was a rush of hoofbeats behind him, and an impatient horse quickly caught up with the carriage, swished and rushed past it!

Second Master Jing in the carriage just opened the window to see whose horse ran so fast, when the rain brought up by that horse's hooves splashed his face.

Second Master Jing: "..."

Second Master Jing was furious. He wiped the rain off his face with his hand, closed the window, opened the front curtain and looked at the galloping horse. He recognized it at a glance.

"Eh? Brother, look, is that the horse from Tianqiong Academy? It's the crazy one!"

The horse king's fight against Heifengqi has long been a legend in the shooting circle, but anyone who has followed the shooting competition knows that Tianqiong Academy has produced a hummer that beats Heifengqi.

Grandpa Guo sat beside Second Master Jing, looking deeply at the direction the horse was leaving. The horse ran so fast that it disappeared in the blink of an eye.

However, he still raised his thin fingertips with difficulty, and tapped on the armrest of the wheelchair.

This stands for yes.

If twice, it means no.

"Strange, why did that horse come here?" Second Master Jing pushed open the window again, stuck his head out in the rain, and looked back. He couldn't see the carriage of Tianqiong Academy, and he felt even more weird.

An Guogong raised his hand, dipped the cinnabar on the armrest, and wrote a word with trembling fingertips: "Chasing."

...

The rain was getting heavier and heavier, although the horses of Duke Anguo's mansion were also first-class horses, but it was still not easy to catch up with the horse king's speed.

Fortunately, Ma Wang ran and stopped, as if he was looking for something, and his speed was not always fast.

They followed Ma Wang further and further away, and gradually came to a desolate and deserted street.

"This is..." Second Master Jing's expression suddenly changed.

In the most prosperous place in the prosperous capital in the past, there was a lot of traffic, and the crowds were like a bustle. People who came to see each other were like crucian carp crossing the river.

But right now, this street has already changed.

Boom!

There was a heavy crash after the heavy rain ahead,

Every sound seemed to hit people's hearts.

Second Master Jing opened the curtain and took a look: "That direction is..."

The Black Wind King was hit badly, with cuts and bruises all over his body.

Ma Wang saw it from a distance, and ran towards it non-stop.

Ma Wang looked at it with a confused face, as if he didn't understand why it would hit this door.

When Ma Wang saw it hit, he followed suit.

However, Ma Wang didn't know what this dilapidated mansion meant to King Heifeng, he directly raised his powerful front hooves, and was about to step on the gate locked by iron chains.

Unexpectedly, Black Wind King knocked Ma Wang away.

Ma Wang tilted his head and looked at it in bewilderment.

Black Wind King continued to hit the door with his head and body.

The carriage of the Duke's Mansion stopped not far away.

Second Master Jing opened the curtain, and the rain came head-on, pouring all on him and An Guogong.

An Guogong watched intently, and tightened his hand resting on the armrest bit by bit.

Second Master Jing also had mixed feelings in his heart. He looked at Black Wind King, frowned and said, "What's the matter with that horse? Is it crazy? If it hits like this again, it will die!"

Black Wind King was seriously injured, Ma Wang refused to let it hit, and the two horses fought.

Just when the two horses were fighting fiercely, the coachman suddenly called out: "Master Guo, Second Lord! Someone is coming over there!"

It was a young man riding a tall horse, holding the rein tightly with one hand, and holding a red-tasseled gun in the other, rushing from the heavy rain. His eyes revealed an unruly calmness.

He rode his horse towards Xuanyuan's mansion.

Second Master Jing was in a daze involuntarily.

Is it because the rain is too heavy, or the fantasy in my mind is too real.

He actually seemed to see his old brother-in-law returning from the military camp with such a calm and unruly demeanor.

Right on this street, right in front of this mansion.

The brother-in-law got off his horse, walked up the steps, and opened the door of the mansion as usual——

Second Master Jing held his breath.

He opened his eyes wide. At that moment, he felt that all the tragedies did not happen. When the door opened, the people inside would come out with a smile.

However, the brother-in-law did not do this. He came up to the two horses and prevented them from being separated.

Second Master Jing woke up like a dream.

Not brother-in-law.

no.

My brother-in-law is dead, and he personally collected his body.

He put his brother-in-law down from the city wall himself, and his hands trembled when he pulled out the red tasseled spear that had penetrated his body.

Second Master Jing turned his head so that his elder brother would not see his red eyes.

An Guogong did not cry.

His tears had dried up.

After the Xuanyuan family was destroyed, after losing his beloved wife who was pregnant with Liujia, and after Yinyin closed his eyes forever in his arms, he no longer had tears.

Second Master Jing raised his hand and wiped his eyes indiscriminately, suppressed his throat to choke, and said in a normal tone, "It's Xiao Liulang."

Of course Duke An also saw it.

His eyes fell on Gu Jiao.

Gu Jiao held the red-tasseled gun in one hand, and raised the other hand to touch the head of the Black Wind King, looking at it calmly.

Black Wind King was gradually appeased.

I don't know if it finally realized that the master it has been waiting for most of its life will never come back. It raised its head, looked at the sky that could not see the sun, and let out a mournful cry.

Gu Jiao quietly accompanied it.

Gu Jiao rarely has empathy with people or the outside world.

But at this moment, she lowered her eyes and raised her hand to cover her heart.

"who!"

In the heavy rain, a few city guards rushed over. They had received a report from the people nearby that a suspicious person had gone to the former site of Xuanyuan's house.

Although the Xuanyuan family has ransacked their home and wiped out their family, and this once bustling street has become a dead street, the shock that the Xuanyuan family has caused to everyone is enduring.

The city defense guards didn't dare to be careless, so they came to have a look.

Second Master Jing hurriedly got off his horse with an umbrella and stopped several city guards who were about to walk towards Gu Jiao.

He showed the badge of the Duke's Mansion, and said politely: "My elder brother's horse and I were frightened and came here, and there are my guards."

As he spoke, he took out a money bag from his pocket and threw it to the leading city guard.

The guard guessed the other party's identity.

"It turned out to be the Second Master Jing, sorry for your disrespect." An Guogong's mansion and Xuanyuan's family are related by marriage, so he didn't believe that the horses from An Guogong's mansion came here by accident.

He weighed the money in his hand, smiled with satisfaction, cupped his hands and said, "It's raining so hard, it's easy to startle the horse. Since Second Lord Jing has found the horse, let's take our leave first."

Second Master Jing smiled and nodded: "Go slowly."

After the guards walked a long way, a companion asked, "Should we tell the superior?"

The headed guard said: "Tell the superior what? Brother An Guogong came to remember the members of the Xuanyuan family? Who in your life didn't know the friendship between An Guogong and the Xuanyuan family? When the Xuanyuan family rebelled and was defeated, everyone who had contacts He avoided it, fearing that he would get into trouble, only Mr. An Guo, who was still Jing Shizi, risked beheading and ran to the battlefield to collect the corpses of the Xuanyuan family. Second Master Jing also followed, and he was not afraid of death. Do you remember the deceased of the Xuanyuan family? Is there anything to report?"

The companion said: "But that kid didn't look like the guards of An Guogong's mansion just now. He was holding a red-tasseled gun in his hand. The first time I saw it, I thought it was the ghost of the Xuanyuan family who had returned."

"It's bright and white, what nonsense!" The head guard said so, but his heart was actually terrified.

That kid was indeed a bit weird, he looked like a member of the Xuanyuan family with his red-tasseled spear.

But the members of Xuanyuan's family were all dead long ago, so they couldn't really be the ghosts who came to take revenge.

He shook his head resolutely, took out a bag of silver from Second Master Jing, and said with a smile: "Don't think about it, let's go, brother will take you guys to drink!"

The figures of the guards completely disappeared in the heavy rain.

Second Master Jing walked around the two horses, came to Gu Jiao's side, and asked, "Why are you here?"

Gu Jiao was looking up at the plaque of the mansion. The plaque was exposed to the sun and rain, and was vandalized maliciously. It was already damaged, and even the word "Xuanyuan" was blurred under the thick spider web.

"Xiao Liulang, Xiao Liulang!" Second Master Jing waved his hand in front of Gu Jiao's eyes.

Gu Jiao regained her senses and said, "I'm here to find my horse."

Second Master Jing snorted, "So you heard it, but you deliberately didn't answer."

"It wasn't intentional." Gu Jiao said, "I heard it, but I was thinking about something. You think about things first, and you ask later."

The implication is that I can only answer you when I have finished thinking about it.

Second Master Jing, who has never seen such a person: "..."

"What's the matter with your horse?" Second Master Jing asked, pointing to King Heifeng.

Gu Jiao said that she was looking for a horse, but she didn't say that she was only looking for one horse. Second Master Jing took it for granted that the other horse also belonged to Gu Jiao.

Gu Jiao didn't explain that the Black Wind King wasn't her own horse, she just shook her head slightly and said, "I don't know either."

Sitting in the carriage, An Guogong saw Second Master Jing talking to Gu Jiao in the rain like a fool, his body was shaking with anger.

Second Master Jing has an umbrella, but Gu Jiao does not.

Fortunately, Second Master Jing and his eldest brother finally had a good understanding. He said to Gu Jiao, "You should live in the outer city. The heavy rain won't stop for a while. Why don't you take shelter in the carriage."

Gu Jiao turned her head to look at the carriage after the heavy rain.

An Guogong sat on the carriage and looked at Gu Jiao without a moment, with eager expectations in his eyes.

Gu Jiao said: "Okay."

Gu Jiao got into the carriage.

Ma Wang bit Heifengwang's rein, and he dragged it along regardless of whether Heifengwang liked it or not.

The carriage drove out of the dead long street, turned right through an alley, came to another street, walked for a while, turned into an alley, and stopped in front of a small courtyard.

This is a small house that is about the same size as the rented house by Gu Jiao and his party. When entering, there is a front yard, and after passing through the main room, there is a back yard, which is connected to a row of back rooms.

Gu Jiao didn't go that far, she just stopped at the corridor of the first row of houses.

Looking at the lilies of the valley all over the yard, she somehow felt that this place was a little familiar, as if she had seen it in a dream.

Second Master Jing moved his elder brother and his wheelchair to the aisle, and the clothes of the two brothers were a little wet.

Second Master Jing called his servants and asked him to take Gu Jiao to the wing room to change into dry clothes.

"Wear my elder brother's clothes, here is only my elder brother's clothes..." Only his sister-in-law's relics are left.

He didn't dare to touch his sister-in-law's belongings, his elder brother would kill him, not to mention that Xiao Liulang was a man and couldn't wear his sister-in-law's clothes.

The servants found Gu Jiao a new set of clothes that An Guogong hadn't worn.

Gu Jiao's figure is considered tall among women, but compared to the height of An Guogong, she is still a little petite, especially like a child stealing an adult's clothes, a bit cute and naive.

Second Master Jing came out of the eldest brother's room after changing his clothes, and this was what he saw.

He secretly thought that he had seen a ghost, but he would actually find this kid cute.

It's obviously very annoying, okay?

Second Master Jing said aggressively: "Your horses are in the stable, don't worry, they will not be starved if they are fed! The doctor is also looking for them! He will treat your horse's wounds!"

"Thank you." Gu Jiao thanked.

Second Master Jing was not used to being so polite, and his attitude immediately lost his viciousness. He coughed lightly and said, "My elder brother called you over to drink tea."

Gu Jiao went to the next door.

The situation of Grandpa Guo has improved a little recently. Before, writing a word was difficult, and it was not always possible to succeed. Now, he can write three or five words in a day, and if he is in a very good state, he can write seven or eight words.

... Most of them scolded Second Master Jing.

Talk about what it's like to have a younger brother who doesn't smoke.

The wheelchair was wiped and dried, An Guogong sat on an official hat chair, there were chairs beside him and opposite him, and Second Master Jing sat across from his elder brother without saying a word.

This way the eldest brother can see him, he is so smart!

There was a murderous look in An Guogong's eyes.

Second Master Jing shrank his neck, why did Mao feel his neck was cold again?

An Guogong cannot turn his head, which means that he will not see Gu Jiao who is sitting beside him.

But Gu Jiao didn't sit down immediately, but came to him first, and knelt down on one knee to feel his pulse.

"The pulse condition is indeed much smoother than before." Gu Jiao said, "The Duke is recovering well."

An Guogong raised his fingertip again, this time he did not tap lightly, but dipped the tea in the cup, and wrote three words tremblingly: "How are you?"

Gu Jiao said, "I'm fine."

An Guogong wrote again tremblingly: "Black, wind."

This is the limit of his strength, the last stroke of the word "Feng" is only half written, the sweat seeps from his forehead, flows down his cheeks, and slips into the skirt of his clothes.

"Huh? What did my elder brother write?" Second Master Jing leaned over, "Hei Feng? What Hei Feng?"

Gu Jiao understood that An Guogong probably recognized the Black Wind King, she said: "It is indeed Han Shizi's Black Wind King, but I don't know why it went there."

She came to look for Ma Wang, meeting the Black Wind King was unexpected, who would have thought that the Black Wind King who had already left with Han Shizi would appear in that place again?

"That horse is the Black Wind King, really..." Second Master Jing murmured with a complicated expression.

"What is it?" Gu Jiao asked.

Second Master Jing sighed: "What should I say? You have seen the Heifengqi of the Han family, but do you know that the Heifengqi did not belong to the Han family, but was domesticated by the Xuanyuan family?"

"I've heard it mentioned before." Gu Jiao said. "After the defeat of the Xuanyuan family, the military power was divided into four, and the cavalry returned to the Han family, and there were a large number of black wind cavalry among them."

"You know the affairs of Yan Kingdom very well."

Gu Jiao didn't refute.

Second Master Jing just teased Gu Jiao simply, and didn't think that Gu Jiao would have any intentions. He continued: "There can only be one Black Wind King out of thirty thousand Black Wind Riders. The Black Wind Kings of all generations are all male horses. Only this Black Wind King is a female horse. It was born with dystocia. It was stuffy in the mother's womb for too long, and it was almost out of breath after it came out. By the way, it was delivered by my brother-in-law and Marshal Xuanyuan. After the birth, Marshal Xuanyuan So I carried it back. So that horse was actually a horse raised by Marshal Xuanyuan himself."

Gu Jiao asked: "Your brother-in-law is..."

Second Master Jing said awkwardly: "Ahem, my brother's brother-in-law is my brother-in-law! Xuanyuanhao!"

Gu Jiao groaned, and said, "Didn't you change your name to Xuanyuan Cheng?"

Second Master Jing was startled: "You even know this?"

Gu Jiao said: "I've heard of it."

No, who are you around? Is it possible to talk about the Xuanyuan family in this way? Aren't you afraid of being beheaded?

Second Master Jing rolled his eyes, thought of something, and said, "Speaking of which, King Heifeng is the same age as Yinyin."

"Yinyin?" Gu Jiao murmured, the name was inexplicably familiar, as if she had heard it in a dream.

Second Master Jing didn't know what was going on in her mind, he just thought she was asking a simple question, and explained: "Yinyin is the daughter of my eldest brother and sister-in-law, who was born in the same year as King Heifeng. When they were two years old, something happened to Xuanyuan's family. The family made great contributions in the great war, and the monarch rewarded the Black Wind Knight to the Han family, and the Black Wind King, who was still a pony, naturally returned to the Han family. Alas, in a flash, it has been fifteen years."

So the Black Wind King went back to find its owner today?

After so many years, is it still waiting for its master to come back?

Gu Jiao was silent for a moment, and then said: "Did the Xuanyuan family really rebel?"

There was an eerie silence in the room.

Second Master Jing tensed up and did not dare to answer.

An Guogong's fingertips were dipped in tea, and he wrote a word crookedly with the strength he had just recovered.

Looking at the word "yes" written by the Duke almost with all his strength, it is strange that Gu Jiao didn't have too many surprises in her heart.

An Guogong still wants to write, but he has no strength.

Second Master Jing looked at his elder brother's shaking hands, and said distressedly: "Brother, stop writing, let me tell you!"

They hadn't met this young man a few times, and logically speaking, they shouldn't have talked so deeply, so he didn't understand, why did the elder brother not defend himself against this young man?

Second Master Jing calmed down, and said solemnly: "Yes, the Xuanyuan family rebelled, but the Xuanyuan family was forced, and the culprit for all this is the National Master Hall!"

"What did the National Teacher Palace do?" Gu Jiao asked.

Second Master Jing snorted coldly, and said, "That bastard national teacher made a fortune teller for Xuanyuan's family, saying that among the members of Xuanyuan's family, there is Ziwei star, also known as Emperor star, and only the king of a country is eligible to have this star." Fate, this is clearly saying that the Xuanyuan family has the air of an emperor, how can I ask which monarch can feel at ease? The Xuanyuan family resolutely proposed to hand over military power in order to prove that they have no backsliding."

"However, not long after the military power was handed over, a war broke out at the border. Jin and Liang joined hands to attack the border of Dayan. Instability, the mountains and rivers were broken, and the city fell. As a last resort, the monarch reused the Xuanyuan family."

"Xuanyuan Li and his eldest son took the lead to attack the army of Jin State first, and recaptured the three cities in one go. Xuanyuan Li's second brother, Xuanyuan Li's third son, and fifth son led the troops to encircle and suppress the army of Liang State. Wherever they went, there was no defeat. They could not be defeated for a long time. The alliance between the two countries was beaten to pieces by the Xuanyuan family, and the people at the border were grateful, and when the Xuanyuan family withdrew their troops, the people of the whole city sent each other along the street."

"This incident made the monarch fully aware of the strength of the Xuanyuan family, and also clearly saw the importance of the Xuanyuan family in the hearts of the people. Ziwei Xing's descent into the world in Xuanyuan cannot be stopped by the Xuanyuan family's surrender of military power, unless—"

Gu Jiao said for him: "Unless they are all dead."

Second Lord Jing nodded: "That's it. From the day the Xuanyuan family triumphantly returned to the capital, the monarch has moved to kill the Xuanyuan family. The development of the lower country into the upper country, the various measures of the National Teacher Hall are of course indispensable, but how can those who once oppressed the Yan country be willing to rise to the rise of the Yan country? How many battles have been fought and how much blood has been shed by the Xuanyuan family's army? , to block the wolfish ambitions of other countries. It wasn’t the Xuanyuan family who guarded the territory, and Dayan’s country was destroyed early, so why talk about the country?”

"The Xuanyuan family has made great achievements, and the monarch is jealous, but he can't kill them casually. He needs them to become a superior country, so the monarch thought of a way to paralyze the Xuanyuan family first. Empress Xuanyuan gave birth to a princess, and the monarch Immediately canonize her as the crown daughter. For more than ten years, the monarch has loved the crown daughter with great care, and he has responded to the Xuanyuan family's requests. The monarch originally wanted to cultivate the character of the Xuanyuan family's favor and arrogance, but the Xuanyuan family's family rules are strict , I didn’t do anything out of the ordinary.”

Gu Jiao said: "The Xuanyuan family can't be judged for ordinary outrageous matters, right?"

Second Master Jing choked: "Ahem, that's true."

Gu Jiao murmured, and said: "So the monarch doesn't want the Xuanyuan family to take the initiative to make mistakes, but to let the people all over the world see how he treats Xuanyuan well. One day, once the Xuanyuan family betrays him, the people will complain for him."

Second Master Jing scratched his head: "Ah, is that so? What you said seems to make sense."

Gu Jiao asked: "Then, how exactly was the Xuanyuan family forced to rebel?"

Second Master Jing was silent for a while, clenched his fists, and said with a complex expression: "I don't know exactly what happened, it seems to be related to the princess. My elder brother knows a thing or two, but unfortunately you have seen it too, my elder brother can't say anything." .”

Gu Jiao thought for a moment, then asked: "There are many people who want something to happen to Xuanyuan's family, right?"

Second Master Jing nodded sadly: "Xuanyuan's power and status, military power and martial arts are all enviable. The Xuanyuan family has never failed the world, but the world has failed the Xuanyuan family."

...

The rain has no tendency to weaken, and the rain is beating on the eaves.

Jing Erye said he was hungry, so he went to the kitchen to find something to eat.

Only Gu Jiao and An Guogong were left in the room.

Gu Jiao moved a small bench and sat beside An Guogong, and pressed his arms and palms for An Guogong, which helped him recover.

"Tell me about Xuanyuan's family, won't you be afraid that I will tell it?" Gu Jiao asked.

An Guogong's fingertips tapped on the armrest twice.

not afraid.

Gu Jiao understood it unexpectedly.

While rubbing his other hand, she said, "Why aren't you afraid? We haven't met a few times, I'm very bad."

An Guogong tapped the armrest three times with his fingertips.

you will not.